Maya Angelou Zitate (266 Zitate) | Zitate berühmter Personen (2024)

„Meine Mission ist, nicht nur gerade so zu überleben, sondern aufzublühen – und das mit etwas Leidenschaft, etwas Mitgefühl, etwas Humor und etwas Stil.“

— Maya Angelou

Quelle: mymonk.de

„Ich habe die Erfahrung gemacht, dass Menschen vergessen, was du gesagt und was du getan hast. Sie vergessen aber nie, wie sie sich bei dir gefühlt haben.“

— Maya Angelou

„Wir staunen über die Schönheit eines Schmetterlings, aber erkennen die Veränderungen so selten an, durch die er gehen musste, um so schön zu werden.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Ich vertraue Menschen nicht, die sich selbst nicht lieben, aber mir sagen: „Ich liebe Dich.“ Es gibt einen alten afrikanischen Spruch: Sei vorsichtig, wenn ein nackter Mensch Dir ein T-Shirt anbietet.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Es gibt keine größere Qual, als eine unerzählte Geschichte in Dir herumzutragen.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Versuche, ein Regenbogen in den Wolken eines anderen zu sein.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Mache niemanden zu Deiner Priorität, für den Du nur eine Option bist.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Ich habe gelernt, dass die Leute vergessen, was Sie gesagt haben, die Leute vergessen, was Sie getan haben, aber nie vergessen, wie sie sich bei Ihnen fühlten.“

— Maya Angelou

„Ich traue Menschen nicht, die sich nicht mögen und sage zu mir: "Ich mag dich."“

— Maya Angelou

„Es gibt keine größere Qual, als eine unerzählte Geschichte in Dir herumzutragen.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Deine Kreativität kannst Du nie aufbrauchen. Je mehr Du sie benutzt, desto kreativer bist Du.“

— Maya Angelou

Quelle: mymonk.de

„Du kannst nicht alle Ereignisse kontrollieren, die Dir wiederfahren. Aber Du kannst entscheiden, Dich nicht von ihnen einschränken zu lassen.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Wenn Du etwas nicht magst, ändere es. Wenn Du es nicht ändern kannst, ändere Deine Einstellung. Beschwere Dich nicht.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Erfolgreich zu sein bedeutet, Dich zu mögen; zu mögen, was Du tust und zu mögen, wie Du es tust.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Eines der größten Geschenke, die Du Dir selbst machen kannst: vergeben. Vergib jedem.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Wenn du immer versuchst normal zu sein, wirst du niemals erfahren, wie besonders du sein kannst.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Courage ist der wichtigste aller Werte, denn ohne ihn kannst Du auch alle anderen nicht konsequent leben.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Mache niemanden zu Deiner Priorität, für den Du nur eine Option bist.“

— Maya Angelou

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„Wenn Du etwas nicht magst, ändere es. Wenn Du es nicht ändern kannst, ändere Deine Einstellung. Beschwere Dich nicht.“

— Maya Angelou

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“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

— Maya Angelou

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

— Maya Angelou

Shared on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MayaAngelou/posts/10150251846629796, July 4, 2011

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Maya Angelou

“When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.”

— Maya Angelou

“A Woman in harmony with her spiritis like a river flowing.She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destinationprepared to be herselfand only herself”

— Maya Angelou

“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”

— Maya Angelou, buch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Quelle: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

— Maya Angelou, buch Letter to My Daughter

Variante: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Quelle: Letter to My Daughter

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

— Maya Angelou

“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variante: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”

— Maya Angelou

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”

— Maya Angelou

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”

— Maya Angelou

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”

— Maya Angelou

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”

— Maya Angelou

“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”

— Maya Angelou

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.”

— Maya Angelou

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."”

— Maya Angelou

The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3
Kontext: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”

— Maya Angelou

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

— Maya Angelou

Nearly identical quote attributed to a 1995 TV show, Touched by an Angel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0732136/quotes: Tess: No, hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it's never solved one yet.
Misattributed

“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”

— Maya Angelou

“I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me.”

— Maya Angelou

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.”

— Maya Angelou

“You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.”

— Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise" - Full text online at poets.org http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623
And Still I Rise (1978)

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.”

— Maya Angelou

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou, buch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Misattributed
Quelle: This is actually from Zora Neale Hurston, <i>Dust Tracks On the Road,</i> though it is widely attributed to Ms. Angelou's book, <i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.</i>